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cn coin 12668

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CN Type 10206 🔍

Coinage
 

Ruler: Alexander der Große (Hellenistic King)  

Mint
Mesembria 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

125-65 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Legend
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ
Design
Zeus (Aëtophoros) enthroned left, holding eagle and sceptre.
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Symbol
ΠΡΟ (position: on the left) corinthian helmet, right (position: on the left) Kallatis_Beiz_01 (position: Beneath throne)
Persons

Sitter: Alexander der Große 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
tetradrachm 🔍  
Material
silver 🔍  
Weight
16.40 g
Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Provenience: Fonds général 502

Literature

Price, The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 1991 nr. 1084 ❐

Karayotov, The Coinage of Mesambria: Silver and Gold Coins of Mesambria, Sozopol 1994 p. 92, nr. 268 ❐

Cite this record:

cn coin 12668, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_12668 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/23]

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